The New Patterns in the Sky: Myths and Legends of the Stars

Staal, Julius D

ISBN 10: 0939923041 / ISBN 13: 9780939923045

Published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Patterns in the Sky: Myths and Legends of the Stars
• Publisher: McDonald and Woodward Publishing
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939923041
• ISBN 13: 9780939923045
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Provides astronomical data on the constellations and relates myths and legends associated with each one.

About the Author

Julius D. W. Staal was born in Batavia, Netherlands East Indies, in 1917 and began his work in planetariums in The Hague, Netherlands. He left the Netherlands during World War II, became a British citizen, worked in the London Planetarium, and was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London. In 1960, he joined the staff of the Planetarium of Witswatersrand and the faculty of the University of Rhodesia. Subsequent travels took him back to England, then to the United States, where he open planetariums in New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Decatur, Georgia. He passed away in July, 1986.